
206 Communication Architectures for SoC
to the state-of-art on-chip interconnect topologies and evaluate the network
latency and power for both synthetic and application workloads.
Next, we lay out the technology assumptions for RF-I. These assump-
tions were made through comprehensive literature survey of current RF-
interconnect models [14, 19, 9, 7]. The area overhead, energy per bit, and
the aggregate data rate of RF-I are dependent on the technology node. Table
6.1 show these parameters for various technology nodes obtained from [9].
The total data rate per transmission line is determined as the product of the
number of carriers and the data rate ...